PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service named three new national forest supervisors in Oregon.
Monica Schwalbach will supervise the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest based in Baker City, Teresa Raaf will supervise the Malheur National Forest out of John Day and Chris Worth will lead the Mount?Hood National Forest from Sandy.
Schwalbach has 22 years of national forest experience in North Carolina, Washington and Nevada. She replaces Steve Ellis, now the U.S. Bureau of Land Management director for Idaho.
Raaf has been acting forest supervisor on the Malheur since Jan. 2, after Doug Gochnour retired. She has been deputy forest supervisor, and has worked on the Siuslaw National Forest and Emigrant Creek Ranger District in Burns.
Worth is a 25-year veteran of the forest service, with a career stretching from Montana to Wisconsin.
